Mike & T’s

This venue is no longer serving customers. In other words they are out of business! Tomorrow I will take photos of the for lease sign in the window. Don’t be so quick to discount peoples responses.

Extremely friendly waitress. Unfortunately they didn’t have the scallops, oh well. They did a great IPA on tap so that helped ease the pain. Ordered the chicken milanese. Side salad was basic (as it should be I guess) but fresh and the dressing was very good.
Chicken milanese was really excellent, as usual way to much food. Sides were just so-​so.
I’ll be back!

Finally an Italian restaurant in Johnston that has Italian food. Price is right, service with a smile and an old Italian Guy in the kitchen. He never forgets my namewhat or to shake my hand when I leave.

I was very pleased with our meal there and we also where greeted by the chief and owner.
I do plan to go back soon.

Food was very good. The service wasn’t.

I really enjoy the food but the service is sub par. It takes way to long to get ANYTHING in this place. I have been twice and this has been the case both times. Never more than 4 tables occupied. Either train you staff or hire new people. There’s plenty of Italian places in town to choose from.

Very good food and great service I highly recommend this place to anyone in the area!

I just want to say. I came to. Mike and T restaurant it was excellent. I feel like I knew them my whole life. All most like family very very nice people. Plus. Plenty of food. Everything I ordered so far was excellent. My husband is very happy also with this place. Mike is the owner he is very personable an the waitress are great. Want to no if your happy with everything an the cooks looks for his thumb up. Sue is very nice an so is. Jennifer an Luciana Jacky. All are very pretty an personality plus

Tried to support a new local business. Arrived on a weekend night, only 4 tables full, the rest empty. Stood inside for a few moments until a bus person said to sit anywhere, as Hostess/​Manager was heading outside for a smoke. Décor was fine, looked promising for a simple old school Italian dinner. Again waited a few minutes til someone dropped off a basket of bread — the previously mentioned smoker making clear «I am not your waitress» Thank God for that I guess.
Finally the very pleasant (but new and unfamiliar with the menu) server arrived and took drink and app order.
While waiting for those to arrive, and waiting seems to be the motto of this place, it was time for people watching. The owner decked out in his best sweats was hanging around the bar shmoozing with friends. Perhaps he should have been greeting people coming in instead of the first impression being the hard working but apron stained busser.
It seems that to get service here you have to know the owner as people who arrived later received food and bev first. Anyway, the server arrived with apps and drinks and we placed our dinner order.
And then…
we waited…
and waited…
Gentle readers of Unilocal,we ordered only a humble Chicken Parm and Pasta Aglio Olio.
Looking around and now seeing only 2 tables occupied, it took 75 minutes for these simple dished to arrive. We honestly were about to just say forget it and head next door to 1 More Taco as we were now starving.
The Pasta was absolutely buried under an avalanche of black olives and my partner found the dish unedible. The Chicken Parm was adequate, but I can get one of similar quality at Burger King in 3 minutes instead of an hour and a quarter. The very apologetic server took away the pasta and offered something else but honestly we had neither the time or patience for another wait for food.
Finally we got the attention of the owner and expressed our disappointment. he seemed a nice enough fellow but not too concerned about our complaints. During this conversation the staff chain smoker sprinted across the room and shrieked «Is there a problem here???» My companion explained that we were speaking to the owner and we really had no need to add someone else into the mix. «Well I’m the Manager!!!» Ah, the manager, the one who didn’t greet incoming guests, did not come over to address either the delay or food quality issues… the manager who told me our food took over an hour «because we were busy!!»
This place is like a real live episode of Kitchen Nightmares right down to the clueless owner and shrieking manager. Why don’t people just understand that a simple «I’m sorry, we just opened a few weeks ago and obviously we have a few kinks to work out. Please come back again and give us another chance.» goes a long way. Instead said «manager» returned to the owner’s buddies and complained about us. Such professionalism.
Well I hope the owner’s friends eat there daily because they need to keep this place afloat. With the way they treat new customers all they’re going to have are the cronies. And a special shoutout to the owner’s classy friend who flipped us the finger on the way out.
It’s Johnston. You don’t have to go far to find better Italian and a better atmosphere.